Obama: We Will Have The Votes To Pass A Good Health Care Bill

[kpete]

Source: Talking Points Memo

Obama: We Will Have The Votes To Pass A Good Health Care Bill
Ben Frumin | September 13, 2009, 8:00PM


In an interview broadcast on 60 Minutes tonight, President Obama told CBS journalist Steve Kroft at the White House on Friday that, "I believe that we will have enough votes to pass not just any health care bill, but a good health care bill."

"I'm confident that we've got that," Obama said.

But of course, it's still an open question whether even a single GOP Senator will support health care reform, something Obama seemed to acknowledge by telling Kroft, "So far we haven't gotten much cooperation from Republicans."

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"Right now you've got just a political environment where there are those in the Republican Party who think the best thing to do is just to kill reform, that that will be good politics," Obama said.



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"I've been in this town a long time. I think this is the year we're gonna get health care done. But I guarantee you this will be pronounced dead at least four or five times before we finally get a bill passed."

-- President Obama, on 60 Minutes, recounting advice given to him by one of his advisers.
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/09/13/extra_bonus_quote_of_the_day.html#031300a
Here's the full 60 Minutes segment:
VIDEO
http://politicalwire.com/archives/2009/09/13/extra_bonus_quote_of_the_day.html#031300a

[AlphaCentauri]

1. Blessed are they who believe without seeing n/t

[Skittles]

6. it's how they voted

[laconicsax]

2. For whom will the bill be good? n/t

[xchrom]

3. they have the votes for a middling, over written

ready for republican assault bill.

[and-justice-for-all]

4. I do not want a 'good health care bill'..

I WANT A PUBLIC OPTION.

[jannyk]

5. +1

[Joe Bacon]

7. I want a strong public option AND NO MAX TAX!

We already compromised with the Public Option. Pass the Max Tax and you'll just have a replay of 1991 when Senior Citizens forced the repeal of Medicare Catastrophic Care.